JACK FISCHER - MICHAEL ROSENTHAL - GUERRERO

PERFORMANCE ART INSTITUTE - HEIST - RVCA

10.15.11

Comment by AB: Dramatic active figural abstractions by photographer Ken Morisawa. The modus? He's underwater looking up and photographing swimmers as they pass over him. It's precisely that simple and no more complicated.

Comment by AB: Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert organize an evening of performances around micromanagement-- "close observation and control over someone else's work, frequently accompanied by an acute focus on minor details, to the point where it often seems more a matter of control than the successful realization of a project."

Review by Clare Coppel: Large paintings by Ian Shults are mostly black and white with splashes of color-- people dancing, partying and in sexual situations. The paintings are like slightly out-of-focus memories with sort of romantic yet slightly sleazy (not like it's a bad thing) feeling.

Comment by AB: Exceptionally dense exhibit of cutting-edge creatibles by a bevy of youthful Bay Area practitioners. Additionally exceptionally dense is the attendance at tonight's event, and so humid that my camera lens fogs up.